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Extract from Canto 8 of James Sale’s English Cantos

The Society
December 8, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
1 Comment
  In Canto 8 the poet and Dante, accompanying him, encounter the next-door neighbour, Peter, who brutally murdered his wife for money. Escaping from there, they enter a lower hell where they are about to...

Five Sonnets on Grimm’s Fairytales, by James A. Tweedie

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December 7, 2019
Culture, Humor, Poetry
2 Comments
Grimm Reckonings Summary Thoughts on Five Fairy Tales: A Sonnet Cycle   Rapunzel I wish Rapunzel could have saved the day __By climbing down her own unfurled hair, __Escaping from her prison-tower...

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’ and Other Poetry by Janice Canerdy

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December 6, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
8 Comments
’Twas the Night Before Christmas ’Twas the night before Christmas and all through the malls there was widespread confusion and hot, frenzied brawls. Many shoppers were wanting the same bloomin’...

‘Rosemary, Cypress, Cedar, and Pine’ and Other Poetry by Alexander King Ream

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December 5, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
17 Comments
Rosemary, Cypress, Cedar, and Pine Rosemary and Cypress, and Cedar and Pine, Green waxen needles and skin of like kind, Deciduous Cypress asleep in the cold, Like Cedar, a hardwood to build a...

‘Morning in England’ and Other Poetry by Ian Williams

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December 4, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
3 Comments
Morning in England Morning in England: web and dew. The county matters not in name, nor distant city hid from view, for this is Albion in her fame; Who—whether solitary lane, or verge astride the...

‘Rain’ by James Preston Pack

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December 3, 2019
Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
8 Comments
  Rain, lapping at the windows fast, falls cold and ceaseless, painting lines of marble on the silvered glass while clouds cast dark and thunder whines; but these walls will not let it pass and...

‘Landscaping, or, How I Came To Believe In Global Warming’ by Martin Hill Ortiz

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December 2, 2019
Humor, Poetry, The Environment
9 Comments
I think that I shall never see A tree that is invisible. The very thought is risible— Or maybe it's advisable To say the word as 'rīsible.' My crucial point is clear to see —I mean it can be seen,...

An Advent Calendar Poem: Twenty-four Windows, by Avery Miller

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December 1, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
2 Comments
  My Adventskalender in Germany made Of paper and glitter has Heaven displayed Through twenty-four windows. Come open with me Each miniature vision of things heavenly. Behind the first window are...

Essay: Wendell Berry and the Depth of a Moment

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November 30, 2019
Poetry
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by T.M. Moore The hectic pace that defines the lives of most of us may be doing more than merely serving as a source of stress and irritation. It may be robbing us of encounters with beauty, wonder, and...

‘To The Poet Leo Yankevich’ by Sally Cook

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November 29, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
  Perhaps the color of your world was dun, And you sank in your couch when work was done, To calculate injustice, add the sum, Saw all was brown, but rays of silver light Which sent you out to...

‘Autumn Glides Away’ by Sarban Bhattacharya

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November 28, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
4 Comments
  There lies a way to heaven by that lake. My sickness gone, I fear no chilly mist; A redwing calls me, dawn is now awake, The fragrant autumn air I can’t resist. There is my home far from this...

A Poem for Thanksgiving Day: ‘Gathered Together’ by C.B. Anderson

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November 28, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
  From cradle to the grave, From womb to musty tomb, The sanity I crave Is in a dining room With family gathered there: Thanksgiving, on a chill November day—no tare Subtracted, if good...

‘There Is a River’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley

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November 27, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
15 Comments
  There Is a River There is a river that I know that flows through quiet meadowland Nearby a row of cottages which by a levee quaintly stand. I saw that river long ago, when one day, to amuse...

Review: Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez

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November 26, 2019
Essays, Poetry, Reviews
4 Comments
by James Sale Jesus and Eros, Bardsinger Books, 2014 Sonnets, Bardsinger Books, 2019-10-08 Theresa Rodriguez is a relatively new and exciting poet on the pages of The Society of Classical Poets. As a...

‘The Plight of Animals’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley

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November 25, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
45 Comments
The Plight of Animals The plight of animals, how must it be Ordained thus, either by a just God or A merciful? By nature meek and poor, They have no hopes, no future can they see And all they own their...

‘To Know the Mobs of Modern Days’ by Jared Pearman

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November 24, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
8 Comments
  dedicated to my wife Caylan Ford, mobbed and defamed for political gains They've come before with pitchforks high, With torches beaming off their knives. This time they come instead with phones To...

‘Sonnet: America in 2019’ by Bruce Dale Wise

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November 23, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
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  by Caud Sewer Bile A deep state run by rulers lacking thought, a young, unschooled, and mad mob living low, corruption's muddy rivers running hot, a lapdog mainstream media in tow, a land...

‘Whither Thou Goest…’ by Leo Zoutewelle

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November 23, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
5 Comments
  As I was strolling in a glade of green And paid but little thought to anything, I hardly knew what vistas filled the scene Of birds intensely hast’ning on the wing. What forceful aim...

Two Whale Poems, by James A. Tweedie

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November 22, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
20 Comments
Reflections on a Dead Whale The sound of surf; the scratch of sand on feet; The sight of distant ships; the taste of salt; And on the gentle springtime ocean breeze The putrid, pungent, rotting stench of...

‘On Antonello Da Messina’s The Annunciation’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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November 21, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
  Palermo’s great basilica is still— All prayers are tongueless for a lonely hour. Here high and holy silence can be breathed Like incense from the smoking thuribles Swung by acolytes at solemn...

‘The Sonnet of the Reluctant Mariner’ by Emmanuel Flores

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November 20, 2019
Beauty, Classical Literature, Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
  What might, what gold does Ithaca hold to vex us; Enthralled ‘till when, by whom, for what, and where? Do not the mermaids sing the song that wakes us to pleasured, pampered mornings in their...

Five Translations of Aesop’s Fables (from Phaedrus, First Century AD Latin Poet)

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November 19, 2019
Beauty, Children's, Classical Literature, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Translation
15 Comments
Translations by Terry L. Norton. Original Latin by Phaedrus follows each. The Red Kite and the Doves When doves had from a certain kite fled And by the swiftness of their wings escaped, The wily bird of...

‘Theatre,’ ‘Opera,’ ‘Sculpture’ and Other Poems by Michael Coy

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November 18, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
11 Comments
  1. THEATRE Strolling Players Dancers, actors, acrobats! Stripey trousers, floppy hats! They weren’t born to swing a scythe, pay a toll or weigh a tithe. Not for them the horny hand, tied to...

‘Winter’s Call’ and Other Poetry by Angel L. Villanueva

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November 17, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
14 Comments
Winter's Call O, can you hear her? Yonder autumn days? A siren's voice, as silent steps she takes? Her nuanced hymn brings frosty morning haze, And warns the trees to brace for pearly flakes. Her...

Two Odes to Leonidas, Spartan King

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November 16, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
Ode to Leonidas, King of Sparta by Ian Williams Stern Sire and Father of the ancient West! Sacred, your primogeniture appears before the pride of Xerxes’ bloodied Best, “Immortals” bowed before...

On the Equity Meme: ‘The Rime of the Balanced Boxes’ by Ron L. Hodges

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November 15, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
The Rime of the Balanced Boxes after Samuel Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner Part I Now, the training time had ended, The conference day was done, So, the teachers left the building, Their...

‘Still Going’ and Other Acrostic Poems by Anna J. Arredondo

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November 14, 2019
Acrostic, Beauty, Culture, Poetry
15 Comments
Still Going It may appear that I’ve run out of chances, No more to rise from absolute defeat, Victim of most hostile circumstances— I laugh, and drag myself back to my feet. Never assume you’ve...

‘Moloch’ and Other Poetry by Richard Jordan

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November 13, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
8 Comments
Moloch Beneath the sands and salted fields there lies A desert land of men once prosperous And proud. They raised a gilded city With their queen, a grander one than any Left behind, free and full of...

Write a Poem on One of These Hong Kong Protest Images

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November 12, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Ekphrastic, Poetry
14 Comments
  The above images are from the pro-democracy protests going on right now in Hong Kong, as the populace peacefully resists communist-controlled authorities. Today, there are no free elections in Hong...

‘Quasimodo’ by Theresa Rodriguez

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November 12, 2019
Beauty, Classical Literature, Culture, Poetry
12 Comments
“Look not on the face, young girl, look at the heart.” —Quasimodo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame A vile, lumbering mass, so hideous, Rejected and despised by every eye That fears and is repulsed by...

Two Poems for Veterans Day 2019

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November 11, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
Two original poems for Veterans Day 2019: "Veterans Day" by Roy E. Peterson and "Glory Glimpsed" by T.M. Moore

‘The Journey Home’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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November 10, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
  The Journey Home Enwrapped in flesh we come to earth, Created in our Maker's image, Where from the moment of our birth We're parties to a mortal scrimmage. Just where the days ahead will find...

‘The Tricoteuses’ and Other Poetry by Frank L. Ludwig

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November 9, 2019
Culture, Humor, Poetry
5 Comments
The Tricoteuses The starving market women marched, marched on Versailles with kitchen knives; both marching and not marching meant they were endangering their lives. The ball got rolling, and the...

‘The Sound of Sunset’ by James A. Tweedie

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November 8, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
19 Comments
  The gold-etched clouds of evensong intone A whisper of rhapsodic melody; Kaleidoscopic shards of psalmody Aflame with facet-fire of precious stone. The heavens declare God’s glory from on...

‘Reparations’ by T.M. Moore

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November 7, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
  Owe no one anything but to love one another. —Romans 13.8 What shallowness, what an impoverished view of human life, that reckons men to be machines that will dispense whatever we desire if only...

On the Whistleblower: ‘What Is His Name?’

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November 6, 2019
Acrostic, Culture, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
by Caud Sewer Bile Elitist, social climbing parvenu, reclusive expert in the CIA, in touch with DNC dirt-digging too, caught leaking from the White House in the day, came forth in utter anonymity in...

‘Black Cat’: Derived from ‘Schwarze Katze’ by Rainer Maria Rilke

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November 6, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Translation
5 Comments
Black Cat a poem derived from "Schwarze Katze" by Rainer Maria Rilke, as translated by Martin Hill Ortiz A crash! I spot a ghost that bumps Eliciting my startled stare. A shadow shifts; a black pelt...

A Villanelle and Video by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

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November 5, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video
originally published on MacKenzie Lyric Poetry Oh, run with the sun and the wind in your hair! Before the day-star sets in the west: Love flowers best in the wide, open air. Behold! The noon-tide waxes...

‘On the Untimely Demise of My Hair’ and Other Poetry by Rob Crisell

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November 4, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
On the Untimely Demise of My Hair In days gone by when life for me looked bright, And I rejoiced in the clear dawn of youth, My hair filled my soul with such sweet delight That soon my locks became my...

‘Sarnia Bound’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley

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November 3, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
  Sarnia Bound To the Sarnian shores, I´ll set my course when the sky at dawn turns pale, And the sea waves glow with sun-streaked foam and a chill wind fills the sail. Till the end of day, I'll...
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